A curious thing happened when I arrived in Kunming located in the Yunnan province of Southern China. The City was Yang. Now why would anyone say that? Sure die in the woods, Feng Shui addicts like myself unfortunately view landscapes as expressions of Yin and Yang or a combination of both and their exhibition of Qi (Chi energy) in a [...]
If there was a place to return to, this is it. There are many places to return to in the wonderland of Yangshuo, located in the southern province of Guangxi, China. I’ve recently been there and enjoyed the thrust of perfectly balanced Yin and Yang surroundings and the magical product of harmony. Yet one place, not of the landscapes, would [...]
I might be repeating myself, but I recently visited the township (and future city of five million) of Yangshuo located about 60 kilometres downstream from Guilin in the Guangxi province of Southern China. Countryside world famous for its landscape of Karst limestone pinnacles dotting the plains and fading into the mists. Beneath them scattered villages and rice paddies and an [...]
Qingcheng Shan holy Taoist mountain, an early home to Taoism and its teachings dating back in time to about 100AD, and I was going to visit it. For a student and believer in Taoism it was going to be something of a revelation and catalyst to my first China visit in May 2010. What I found after the public bus [...]
To a half interested observer of one’s surroundings, change is on the make in China. Change charging and displayed as change does and not so more obvious in cities such as Chengdu, home of the Panda….and visiting Chengdu to see the Black and Red Pandas in the flesh is worth a trip to China if not for anything else. But [...]
Hey, I’ll have to pinch myself. I’m in China aren’t I? Walking down a mall in Guilin and witnessing the energy and merriment of China’s youth. I wonder, has China’s modernisation caught up to the West and moved past it, I think so, Chinese youth tearing off the cloak of fabric from the past and displaying the vitality of their [...]
I wonder if time could tell its story and the landscapes of Yangshuo in Guangxi province of Southern China relay their history and past, would they suggest Feng Shui origins emulated from these places? Good question and the answer unknown other than present day visits to such landscapes and wondering if the founding fathers of Feng Shui or one of [...]
A highlight of a trip into China is traveling south into the province of Guangxi and viewing landscapes seen and experienced by ancient Chinese thousand or so years before and as these ancient people we absorbing the Qi (Chi energy)of the place and wondering why is it so. I understand Feng Shui origins come in part from the landscapes of [...]